Polar Bears and Paddleboards – and Bear Grylls.
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When I was sharing a bottle of red with Paul Hyman of Active 360 after a day stand-up paddleboarding on the River Thames last year we hatched a plan to undertake on a paddleboard expedition in Arctic waters. From that small idea a whole project has developed based around an expedition to paddleboard to the [...]
It could be you…
When I offered to support Magpas last year, I had no idea at all that it would be me calling on them for support! Whilst I was out on the ice on my last expedition a medical emergency left us in a position where we were calling Magpas for professional advice. You can read more [...]
Surgery.
At last! The surgery is over and I’m on the road to recovery – albeit a little more slowly than I’d anticipated or hoped for. I have to admit that despite my reservations, or inane fear of hospitals and treatment it actually wasn’t all that bad; in fact, I’d almost go as far as saying [...]
Selling to Win!
Richard Denny; ‘Selling to Win’ I purchased my copy of ‘Selling to Win‘ twenty-five years ago when it first hit the shelves. I was a young health club manager at the time looking for new ways to boost club membership sales. Little did I know then that years later I would write a small piece to [...]
Injury Update
At last – I’m having surgery! A few days ago I had an appointment to see a consultant regarding repairing the split in my abs and resulting epigastric hernia. I was poked and prodded as expected and then the surgeon gave me the news. “It’s not a simple epigastic hernia Mr. Miles”. Well, it wouldn’t [...]
The Perfect Multi-Tool?
A tool that performs a function is a tool that performs a function – right? What I mean is that a tool made to perform a function is very much the same as any other tool that performs the same function – or so I thought until I was introduced to the Leatherman Charge AL [...]
Rediscovering Tony Buzans Mind-Maps
I first became aware of ‘mind-mapping’ a zillion years ago when I was involved with developing activity programmes for leisure centres. My boss at the time was as keen a manager as any ever could be and was constantly on professional developments courses honing her skills and developing her knowledge. One course that she’d attended [...]
Corporate SUP Events.
Arranging a corporate event which appeals to your team can be a difficult process. Wine tasting, adventure days, off-road driving courses, track days and tickets to a sporting event have been done to death and to help lift the spirits of your teams it could be time to think outside of the box and look [...]
The Last Day.
It’s taken me a few weeks to get back to bashing away at the keyboard after the first leg of the Dark ice project a very premature end. Below is an extract from my diary written the day after everything went wrong. “We took our first baring of the day and identified a distant star [...]
‘Old Bloke’
I was 14 – just. It was my second day of ‘work experience’ and I was stood nervously behind the counter of the local gym trying to look calm and composed whilst I was, in fact, rigid with fear as I guarded the reception desk. The door before me opened and in walked an old [...]
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